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MikeDunnAuthor
@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Florida moves to scrap ALL vaccine requirements for kids to attend public schools, endangering the health and safety of the states children, as well as their at-risk relatives and teachers. Meanwhile, 1,000 HHS employees sign letter asking RFKJr to resign.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/florida-plans-scrap-kid-vaccine-mandates-hhs-employees-demand-rfk-jr-resignation

#publichealth #florida #vaccines #children #hhs #rfkjr

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MikeDunnAuthor
@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Florida moves to scrap ALL vaccine requirements for kids to attend public schools, endangering the health and safety of the states children, as well as their at-risk relatives and teachers. Meanwhile, 1,000 HHS employees sign letter asking RFKJr to resign.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/florida-plans-scrap-kid-vaccine-mandates-hhs-employees-demand-rfk-jr-resignation

#publichealth #florida #vaccines #children #hhs #rfkjr

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Alex Akselrod
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Democracy Matters :verified:
@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

RESIGN, YOU HEROIN-ADDLED MOTHERFUCKER!!!

#BatshitBob#AgentBrainWorm #BobKennedy#HHS#PublicHealth#Vaccines#RFKisNoKennedy#RFKPredator#RFKGrifter#USPol

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Democracy Matters :verified:
@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

RESIGN, YOU HEROIN-ADDLED MOTHERFUCKER!!!

#BatshitBob#AgentBrainWorm #BobKennedy#HHS#PublicHealth#Vaccines#RFKisNoKennedy#RFKPredator#RFKGrifter#USPol

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
#Federal labor #unions targeted in the EOs have repeatedly sued the #Trump admin, & in some cases forced the admin to temporarily pause Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal work force & reshape the government. The American Federation of Government Employees [#AFGE] has filed more than a dozen lawsuits related to the federal work force. The White House has likened this to a declaration of “war.”

#law #labor #unions

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@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

So far, 9 agencies have terminated #union contracts that covered >445k #FederalWorkers from the #EPA, US #CoastGuard, #FEMA, #GSA, the Departments of #HHS, #Agriculture & #VeteransAffairs, & parts of #ICE & #Citizenship & #Immigration Services.

“This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history,” said Mike Podhorzer, a former political director of the #AFLCIO. “There’s not another time when that many people lost their union.”

#law #labor #unions#Trump

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ProPublica
@ProPublica@newsie.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul an obscure but vital program that underpins the nation’s childhood immunization system.

Depending on what he does, the results could be catastrophic.
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-childhood-vaccines-vicp?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Health#Vaccines#RFKJr#Children#Medicine#PublicHealth

Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌
@ArenaCops@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@ProPublica Is RFK Jr. the prime threat to public health & national security?
No! It's the one, who nominated & appointed him, and the ones, who confirmed the deluded conspiracy theorist, who even his own family warned against.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/robert-kennedy-jr-shocking-history
#USPol#PublicHealthRisk#Trump#RFKJr#PublicHealth#HHS#CDC#NIH#NationalSecurityThreat#UnseatTheTrumpRegime#USPolitics#RaiseYourVoice #UnitedInDiversity#StrongerTogether#WeThePeople#WeCare

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Bjørnar (he/him)
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Drew Crecente (they/them)
@crecente@games.ngo  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government [1]

👉Government datasets modified without notice.

▪️We gathered metadata from the US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, and Veterans Affairs database harvest sources [... ] that were modified between Jan 20 and March 25, 2025.

▪️We found that 114 (49%) of the 232 included datasets were substantially altered.

⭐SOME CHANGES⭐

- “Social determinants of health” to “non
medical factors”
- “Gender” to “sex”
- “female details” column deleted

▪️The agencies involved have not issued any statements confirming or explaining these changes [...]

▪️Despite Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr's (Department of Health and Humana Services) calls for “radical transparency”, unlogged data manipulation moves away from meaningful transparency.

▪️Only 15 (13%) of the 114 altered datasets logged or otherwise indicated that the change had occurred.

[1] 🌐https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01249-8/fulltext

@publichealth @psychology @sociology @datascience #publichealth #datascience #science #research #health #government #criticalthinking #hhs #cdc #va @bicmay

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Drew Crecente (they/them)
@crecente@games.ngo  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Data manipulation within the US Federal Government [1]

👉Government datasets modified without notice.

▪️We gathered metadata from the US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, and Veterans Affairs database harvest sources [... ] that were modified between Jan 20 and March 25, 2025.

▪️We found that 114 (49%) of the 232 included datasets were substantially altered.

⭐SOME CHANGES⭐

- “Social determinants of health” to “non
medical factors”
- “Gender” to “sex”
- “female details” column deleted

▪️The agencies involved have not issued any statements confirming or explaining these changes [...]

▪️Despite Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr's (Department of Health and Humana Services) calls for “radical transparency”, unlogged data manipulation moves away from meaningful transparency.

▪️Only 15 (13%) of the 114 altered datasets logged or otherwise indicated that the change had occurred.

[1] 🌐https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01249-8/fulltext

@publichealth @psychology @sociology @datascience #publichealth #datascience #science #research #health #government #criticalthinking #hhs #cdc #va @bicmay

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Joseph Szymborski :qcca:
@jszym@cosocial.ca  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

My question for #researchers in the fields of #biology , #genetics , #medecine , etc... is are we going to be ready for the possibility of #PubMed and other #NIH online databases and services becoming one of the many casualties of the current #US administration and its increasingly unreliable #HHS department?

This is an interesting opportunity for the broader international research community to create a more distributed, resilient alternative. Scientists, citizen or otherwise... any ideas? #phd

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Exclusive: US #CDC #vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says

A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as the study's author said.

#Trump#RFKJr#AI#HHS #science #medicine #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-cdc-report-shows-no-evidence-linking-thimerosal-containing-vaccines-autism-2025-06-24/

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

The meeting has become increasingly controversial after #Health Secretary #RFKJr just weeks ago abruptly fired all previous 17 members of the expert panel & named 8 new members, half of whom have advocated against #vaccines.

Kennedy, a long-time #AntiVaccine activist, founded the Children's Health Defense.

#Trump#AI#HHS #science #medicine #idiocracy #kakistocracy

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

The meeting has become increasingly controversial after #Health Secretary #RFKJr just weeks ago abruptly fired all previous 17 members of the expert panel & named 8 new members, half of whom have advocated against #vaccines.

Kennedy, a long-time #AntiVaccine activist, founded the Children's Health Defense.

#Trump#AI#HHS #science #medicine #idiocracy #kakistocracy

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

The report, called "Thimerosal as a Vaccine Preservative" published on the #CDC website on Tues, is to be presented by Lyn Redwood, a fmr leader of the #AntiVaccine group Children's Health Defense.

https://www.cdc.gov/acip/downloads/slides-2025-06-25-26/05-influenza-redwood-508.pdf

It makes reference to a study called "Low-level neonatal thimerosal exposure: Long-term consequences in the brain," published in the journal Neurotoxicology in 2008, & co-authored by UC Davis Professor Emeritus Robert Berman.

#Trump#RFKJr#AI#HHS #science #medicine

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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Exclusive: US #CDC #vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says

A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as the study's author said.

#Trump#RFKJr#AI#HHS #science #medicine #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-cdc-report-shows-no-evidence-linking-thimerosal-containing-vaccines-autism-2025-06-24/

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Broadwaybabyto
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

This is why we should never debate the worth of another person

We all have value just for being ourselves

It’s not tied to our job, or health status or our economic contribution

Saying that someone must prove they “matter” to get Medicaid is blatant eugenics

Disabled people aren’t expendable!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dr-oz-says-people-will-receive-medicaid-if-they-can-prove-that-they-matter/

#uspol #hhs #medicaid #disability #ableism #eugenics #DrOz

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Kim Perales
@KimPerales@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago
#RFKJr says he may bar govt scientists from publishing in top med journals.

"He's militantly, dangerously ignorant."
-J Jarvis

“We’re probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New Eng Jnl of Med, JAMA, & other jnls, bc they’re all corrupt." He described them as being under the control of pharma cos.

The 3 pubs *est in the 1800s, & pub original, peer-reviewed res -play a cent role in disseminating med res worldwide.

He's sabotaging #HHS.
#Science#Resist#USPolhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/28/rfk-jr-ban-journals-lancet-jama/

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petersuber
@petersuber@fediscience.org  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

Update. "RFK Jr. issues rule barring public comment on #HHS rulemaking"
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5170090-rfk-jr-hhs-public-comment-rulemaking-ends/

"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday released a policy prohibiting public comments during his department’s rulemaking process, ending more than 50 years of the public’s involvement in crafting his department’s rules…After assuming office, Kennedy had vowed to usher in “radical transparency” at the HHS…Lawrence O. Gostin, faculty director of O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center…speculated that Kennedy was rescinding public comments in order to quickly “ram through” radical changes to health care, public health and scientific research in the U.S."

#DefendResearch#Medicine#Takedowns #Trump#USPol#USPolitics

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